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U.S. Special Forces to Expand Presence in Pakistan (none / 0) (#1)
by Edward Barlow on Thu Dec 27, 2007 at 04:09:46 PM CST
This assasination is very sad - and very scary.  Pakistan a country of 165 million people has Nuclear Weapons.
This following is a news clip from the Dec 27 show Democracy Now! with Amy Goodman.

U.S. Special Forces to Expand Presence in Pakistan

In other news on Pakistan, the Washington Post reports U.S. Special Forces are expected to vastly expand their presence in Pakistan beginning in early 2008. The U.S. troops will reportedly take part in an effort to train and support Pakistani counter-insurgency forces and clandestine counterterrorism units. While the U.S. expands its presence in Pakistan, questions are being raised over how Pakistan has spent five billion dollars in U.S. aid sent since the Sept. 11 attacks. According to the New York Times, the money was supposed to have been spent to fight Al Qaeda and the Taliban. But now U.S. officials are admitting that funds were diverted to help finance weapons systems designed to counter India, another U.S. ally


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